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There was also a woman (girl? she was probably only twenty or so) who worked there and had this uncanny knack of knowing whenever I was skipping school to spend the day at The Comicshop. Maybe it was the fact that I was the only thirteen-year-old in the store at 11 in the morning on a Thursday in the middle of November. I remember she told me if she saw me there during school hours again she'd kick me out of the store!

That Blue Beetle has a cover that would make anyone want to open it up and read the tale inside. Great pickups!

the link is no long er available..is this rhe shop Kin worked in? Yes To answer an earlier question, I think the first photo I posted was of their first location at 3638 W. 4th Ave (which is less than a block away from the store's current location). The store I remember, and it sounds like others do too, was the one at 4th and Arbutus owned by Ron and Ken (who later opened a store in North Vancouver called Airship Comics that I also frequented). Kin Jee, below, often worked the counter along with a cast of other colorful characters (hippies). Some of my best books came from those boxes behind him! And this is where I usually blew all the cash I collected on my paper route. Boy did I hate when people refused to pay for their monthly subscription early!

My first was The Comicshop on 4th Ave, Vancouver, in 1979 What do I remember most? All the hippies...

Mainly the #3 Here's another hot tip: ASM #129 ASM #129? Too common. I only collect scarce, HTF in good condition Moderns

Gotham Girls comics are getting hot? Thanks for the tip!

I love Harry Lucey's lines. He definitely knew how to throw a curve!

Great pickup and great cover! I hope the story inside is just as good!

This photo makes the thread. I don't know why he's so determined to chose between a Cap #1 and Marvel Comics #1, when he could just grab those Boy Commandos instead. Boy Commandos is more fun than Marvel 1 and it has Kirby art. Cap 1 would probably be the first he grabbed with the BC underneath. Fantastic photo, but just watching him lift that legendary comic (don't bend that spine!) and touch it with his bare hands sends my comic-collecting spidey-sense off the charts! Didn't they protect comics back then? Or was condition not the be-all and end-all for collectors like it is today?

Never even heard of Manhunt, but it looks interesting! Sweet haul!

Sweet book and great cover! I love the thunderstruck expression on the lower left alien's face. I have a hunch it isn't because of the gun aimed right between his eyes, but because he just got his first good gander at his intended victim's knockout headlights!

I thought the exact same thing! I barely spotted the Adventure Comics and it's right up front. By the way, which one did the kid grab? The Three Little Pigs?

Great story! As a side note, if mom was only going to let you get one comic from this rack, which one would you pick? For some reason that Pep Comics seems to grab me...

All great books, but this one's my fave. Severin's Western covers are always loaded with action and always grab me!

I remember reading this right off the rack, and I doubt that comic was anywhere near as nice as this one. Great book!

I always loved that cover. Sweet book!

Beautiful books and great signature placement! They look great across the logos (hate to have anything distract from those fantastic covers), and Berni's autograph is a work of art all on its own! Congrats again on the books. Well worth the wait!

Wrightson's DC horror stuff is crazy good. A master of the macabre, every cover a masterpiece for two bits or less. I also love the black and white magazine stuff he did, but the one work I can't get enough of is Freak Show, so good!

Congrats! Did you read them all too? Or just tag and bag 'em?

My favorite issues of Fantastic Four AND Superman. Great pickups! I love every comic where Supes and the Scarlet Speedster race, but didn't they always end in a tie?

Nice books! Is it just coincidence that all of them have a hot blonde in a red dress on the cover?

Very well said! Especially the bit about comic buying budgets back then (in my case, the Bronze Age). My weekly allowance was 25 cents (raised by single mom with four kids - I was the youngest) and each week, if I could resist the urge to fill a tiny brown paper bag with twenty-five penny candies, I'd buy one comic. And I distinctly remember the day I laid my weekly comic on the counter and the clerk pointed at the price and said, "they're thirty-cents now." I raced back home and begged my mom to raise my allowance, just by five cents. I think I've had easier salary negotiations with employers, but in the end I got the extra nickel and my comic. Thanks Mom!

Love those Weird War Tales covers! Just seeing that logo brings back a ton of cool memories. I always had to hide them (and any Unknown Soldiers) from my older brother and his friends. If they got their hands on them I'd be lucky to get them back in one piece, if at all. And when they asked why I didn't have any war comics I said I did, and offered them a copy of Sad Sack and the Sarge. Does that count as Bronze War?

Beautiful books! Love the layout on that Planet. Which one is Mysta of the Moon? The babe in the bubble?

Thanks for the warm welcome! I plan on doing just that (sharing images) as soon as I finish reading through all the threads on scanning, posting, creating emojis, yoda yada. Hopefully it won't take seven years, like my last post...